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Ira Chernus (born October 29, 1946) is a journalist, author, and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University, specializing in the history of rabbinic Judaism. His academic writing now focuses on the foreign policy of US presidents. He has published books on Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush and is currently writing a book on Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a journalist, he writes regularly for the Huffington Post, CommonDreams, TomDispatch, AlterNet, Truthout, Foreign Policy In Focus, and Religion Dispatches. Many of his writings can be found on his University of Colorado website. He has written extensively on peace, war, foreign policy, and nationalism in the United States, as well as the Israel-Palestine conflict and U.S. Middle East policy. His recent writings on Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. are collected on his blog. He has lectured in Lebanon, Finland, Australia, and Canada, as well as extensively throughout the United States.

Selected bibliography

  • ''Mysticism in Rabbinic Judaism'' (August 1981, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3110085895)
  • ''Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons'' (June 15, 2006, University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 0872494845
  • ''Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace'' (September 23, 2002, Texas A&M; University Press, ISBN 1585442208)
  • ''General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse'' (October 2002, Michigan State University Press, ISBN 9780870136160)
  • ''American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea'' (September 1, 2004, Orbis Books, ISBN 1570755477)
  • ''Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin'' (September 30, 2006, Paradigm Publishers, ISBN 9781594512766)
  • ''Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity'' (February 4, 2008, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804758079)

    • References

    External links

  • Personal website

    • Category:Historians of the United States Category:People from Plainfield, New Jersey Category:University of Colorado at Boulder faculty

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